Abdullah Kumas
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Awards
Best paper Award at Graduate Student Research Day (shared), SMU, February 2008
Dedman College Travel Grant, SMU, April 2008
President's Volunteer Service Award, SMU, April 2008
Graduate Student Assembly Conference Presentation Travel Grant, SMU, November 2007
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Presentations
"Aggregate Market Attention and Earnings Announcements" at the American Accounting Association, Washington DC, August 2012
"Reassessing the Effect of Bilateral Tax Treaties on U.S. FDI Activity" at the Texas Camp Econometrics XII, Houston, TX, February 2007
"The Failure of Public Unions in Turkey: An Instrumental Quantile Regression Approach" at the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA, November 2007
"Asymmetric FDI and Withholding Tax Rates: Evidence from OECD" at the Midwest Economics Association, Chicago, IL, March 2008
Best paper Award at Graduate Student Research Day, SMU, Dallas, TX, February 2008 (shared)
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Publications
Journal ArticlesPublications:
- “Information Leakage Around SEC Comment Letters” with Marshall Geiger, Bret Johnson, and Keith Jones (November, 2022) Management Science Vol 68, Issue 11, pp. 7793-8514
- “Trading concentration and industry-specific information: an analysis of auto complaints.” with Geiger, M.A., Keskek, S. & Kumas, A Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting Vol. 59, pp. 913–937 (2022).
- "Information search in times of market uncertainty: an examination of aggregate and disaggregate uncertainty" Geiger, M.A., Hasan, R., Kumas, A. and Smith, J.v.d.L. (2022), International Journal of Managerial Finance, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 594-612
- "Aggregate market attention around earnings announcements" Cready, W.M. and Kumas, A. (2020), Asian Review of Accounting, Vol. 28 No. 4, pp. 591-617.
- “Institutional Investor Trading Around Auditor’s Going Concern Modified Opinions: An Analysis of Mutual Funds and Pension Funds” with Marshall Geiger and Sami Keskek (2020) International Journal of Auditing Vol. 20 Issue 1, March: pp. 37-52.
- “Insider Trading Around Auto Recalls: Does Investor Attention Matter?” with Marshall Geiger, Omer Gokalp and Sami Keskek Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (2020) Vol. 55, pp. 1003–1033.
- “Anticipation and Reaction to Going Concern Modified Audit Opinions by Sophisticated Investors” with Marshall Geiger International Journal of Auditing 2018 (22): 522-535
- “Market Ambiguity and Information Demand by Individual Investors” with Joyce van der Laan Smith and Rajib Hasan Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics 2018 (14): 126-141.
- “Reassessing the Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on US FDI Activity” with Daniel Millimet Journal of Economics and Finance (2018) (42) 451-470.
- “Are Trade Size‐Based Inferences About Traders Reliable? Evidence from Institutional Earnings‐Related Trading” with William Cready and Musa Subasi Journal of Accounting Research 2014 (52): 877-909
- “It’s All in the Timing: Assessing the Impact of Bilateral Tax Treaties on US FDI Activity” with Daniel L. Millimet, in L. Sachs and K.P. Sauvant (eds.), The Effect of BITs and DTTs on FDI Flows, Oxford University Press, 2009: pp: 635-657.
Working Papers:
- “Information discovery, interpretation, and analysis by institutional investors around earnings announcements?” with Sami Keskek
*Submitted to 2024 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting - “Enhanced Information Access: How Investor Conferences Influence Institutional Trading Ahead of Takeover Announcements” with Musa Subasi (University of Maryland)
*Submitted to 2024 American Accounting Association Spark Meeting - “Spider Business School: Improving Cost Structure” with Zach Duray (University of Richmond)
*Submitted to 2024 American Accounting Association Annual Meeting
Working-in-progress:
- “A New Perspective on the Earnings-Induced Volume: Participation Rate and Participation Magnitude Components of Trading Volume” with William Cready (UT Dallas) and Musa Subasi (University of Maryland)
- “Director Network and Auditor’s Going Concern Modified Opinions” with Marshall Geiger (University of Richmond) and Ted Polat (George Mason University)
- “The Value of Cash and Relation between Earnings and Return” with William Cready and Sami Keskek
- “Value-at-Risk and Returns in Banking Industry” with Hulusi Inanoglu (Federal Reserve System)
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